Hi Ricardo, On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 at 18:52, Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> wrote:
> CRAN and Bioconductor packages could certainly move. Inclusion in > Guix came first, the separate channels second. Now I think it > would be fine to move them all to the separate channel, as long as > we keep a distinction between those that have been "audited" and > those that are just automatically generated with no guarantees at > all. I full agree. > That said, R packages are very unusual in that there are very few > other packages that depend on them. Extracting other packages to > separate channels is likely much more problematic. As you replied [0]: “it also means that Guix needs to make it even easier to deal with extra channels”, and I agree again. :-) Somehow, now Guix Extensions might be popular, someone™ should explore subcommand for easing to deal with extra channels. Hum, let “vibe-code” this. ;-) Cheers, simon 0: Re: Good vibes, bad vibes Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:59:24 +0100 notmuch:id:[email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2026-10 https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected]
